The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Sioux tribe of Indians have
sub-chief who is named: "The-man
who-ran-so-fast-that- wind-was left
behind.' 1t is needless to say that hi;
squaw was after him with a club De
troit Free Press.
A man in Ontario can repeat per
fectly one hundred and sixty-eigh
chapters of the Bible, fifty-eight psalm:
and every collect, epistle and gospel in
the ecclesiastical year, according to the
English Church prayer-book.-Montrea;
Witness.
AT Washington, Pa, a few days
ago natural gas-pipe became clogged
up, and on investigation it was found
that the pipe was filled with crystalline
salts, which had been deposited from
the brine flowing with the gas. The
mass extended forty feet.
An Austrian electrician named
Marcus, is supplying the German navy
with a newly invented petroleum en-.
CINE for torpedo-boats. The engine is
set in motion by electromagnetic, anG
is more powerful than steam engiNe
of the same size.
An evening paper, in giving re-
| port of a recent meeting of washer
women in Berlin, said, after explaining
that the male sex were carefully ex-
cluded from the room, that the women,
on discovering that gentleman was in
their midst, "rose as one man. IN Y
Telegram.
-Nellie-"Were you ever toboggan.
ing in Cansdap" Minnie-''Yes; but il
isn't half so nice as it is in Omaha. "
'Too cold?'' mo, that doesn't matter;
but the slides are so awfully steep"
"Steeper than ours?' 80, ever so
much. Why, tEey are so dangerous
that the gentlemen can't do a thing but
just watch the course and steer" "Ohr'
Omaha World.
The Belgian Government offers a
prize of five thousand dollars, to be
awarded in 1889, to the author of the
best work on the progress of electricity
in its uses as a motor and for lighting
purposes, and all applications that
can be made of it for such purposes,
and the economy and advantages
which its use may offer. The prize
is open to all nationalities, and the
manuscript may be written in En-
glish, French, Flemish, German, Italian
or Spanish.
Two Chicago men discussed the
weather the other morning, one claim
ing that the mercury was below zero,
the other that it was above. Then they
backed up their opinions with money,
and hurried to the nearest drug store
to consult the thermometer The man
who thought the weather extremely
cold was near-sighted, and while he was
engaged in preparing to look at the in
strument the other held his lighted
cigar under the bulb and won his bet
| with Chicago Mail.
The Thirteen Club will go on giving
dinners, Notwithstanding the Alder
manic disaster, and will continue to
dine on the 18th of each month with
thirteen men at each table, with thir-
teen candles, with thirteen dishes, will
sit down at thirteen minutes past eleven,
and will endeayor to drink thirteen
different toasts to the confusion of the
old superstition. And some of the
wives have been heard to say that each
dinner is followed by thirteen head.
aches.-N. Y. Mail.
General Scofield says that if the press
reports of the recent train robbery ON the
Fort Worth & Denver road are true, the
Captain in charge of the troops which
surrendered without a struggle should
be shot, and his men tried for disobeyine
the rule for the conduct of a United
States soldier. "Any United States SOL
der who gives up his arms is a coward y
the General adds, ''and / am glad we
have found out the five men who it is
reported gave up their arms, for they
will not longer be wanted in the service
Of the United States. ~. 7. Herald.
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